ATKINS, E. Taylor 1967-

PERSONAL: Born May 4, 1967, in Murray, KY; son of Bill and Barbara (Bruce) Atkins; married August 31, 1991; wife's name, Zabrina; children: Gabriella, Annabelle. Ethnicity: "White." Education: University of Arkansas, B.A., 1989; University of Illinois, Ph.D., 1997. Religion: Baha'i. Hobbies and other interests: Cooking, music.

ADDRESSES: Offıce—Department of History, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115. E-mail— etatkins@niu.edu.

CAREER: University of Iowa, Iowa City, visiting assistant professor, 1997; Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, assistant professor, 1997-2003, associate professor of history, 2003—. University of California, Berkeley, visiting assistant professor, 2003.

MEMBER: American Historical Association, Association for Asian Studies, Association for Baha'i Studies, Midwest Japan Seminar.

AWARDS, HONORS: Mellon fellow, 1990; Fulbright fellow, 1993-95; John Whitney Hall Prize, 2003.

WRITINGS:

Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, Duke University Press (Durham, NC), 2001.

(Editor) Jazz Planet, University Press of Mississippi (Jackson, MS), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS: A book on Korean performing arts under Japanese colonial occupation, 1910-45; research on Bahá'í critiques of colonialism.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Library Journal, July, 2001, James E. Perone, review of Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan, p. 92; December, 2003, William G. Kenz, review of Jazz Planet, p. 121.